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Building Star Can Create 185,000 Green Jobs This Year
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In the current recession, no sector has been harder hit than the construction industry, which has lost more than 2 million jobs. The unemployment rate in the construction industry is a staggering 27 percent, almost triple the overall unemployment rate.
You can help put building and construction trades workers back on the job by contacting your senators and representatives and urging them to support Building Star—H.R. 5476 and S. 3079. The legislation would provide building owners rebates and low-cost financing options for energy-efficient renovations in existing buildings.
It would, says the Sheet Metal Workers (SMWIA):
mobilize building owners, construction firms, the building trades and manufacturers and distributors of building supplies to create jobs NOW in 2010, not later. Building Star will put sheet metal workers back to work retrofitting existing buildings, and would do so fast.
If acted on quickly, the bill could create as many as 185,000 jobs this year in construction, manufacturing and support jobs.
Click here to send a message to your lawmakers.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), one of the bill’s co-sponsors, says:
Clean energy is not only the next great growth industry, but it’s an engine for job creation today. Energy-efficiency programs like “Building Star” will put Americans to work in construction and manufacturing and save small businesses money as we strive for American energy independence.
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While you have their attention you might also ask them to start enforcing exisiting immigration laws.I’m pretty sure that would put many thousands of American Union Members back to work.
No thanks!
We put in new windows, added insulated siding, replaced lighting fixtures & bulbs, updated boilers and controls. We did everything possible to reduce our energy use and we did it at our expense!
Al we got from the government is higher taxes.
Don’t ask us to subsidize owners who have never improved their buildings.
Also, please ask them to lift the misconceived oil drilling moratorium which will cause hundredths of thousands layoffs!
June 11, 2010 — STEVEN THOMMA — McClatchy Newspapers
A group of engineers and oil experts said Friday that the Interior Department changed the language of a high-profile oil spill report after they’d signed it, falsely signaling their support for a drilling moratorium that they thought went too far.
The new language called for a stronger and wider moratorium on some oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico than the experts thought necessary. In fact, one said Friday, the stronger moratorium might instead increase the risks slightly.
http://www.miamiherald.com/
It would be nice if you had the facts instead of right wing FOX News bullet point propaganda. The moratorium is only on deep water drilling until they figure what went wrong besides greed which drove the use of inferior pipe for the well casing, not following known safety procedures and not listening to the the workers who were telling them the situation was hazardous that killed 11 of them while the rats abandoned ship and were overheard on a rescue ship yelling at someone,”the rigs blowing up! Are you F______g happy now? It’s tragic that in America people who don’t really know what the hell they are doing get to live to learn they were wrong.
This Building Star Program is a start but we need to have an Industrial Policy that favors “Made In America” and enacts tariffs against products that that are produced with the help of the tax credits we gave them to move the jobs and the technology overseas. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m sick and tired of politicians telling me that making our country the biggest suckers in the history of the world is some how beneficial to our “economy”. What a crock they believe in when they support “Free Trade” when just about every indicator proves its failure to our common good and our deficit climbs because we’re making less money because the very rich put what we don’t get into Hedge funds and pay 15% tax!